History is dominated by war, battles, and sieges. Our history books are full of these. But history books usually don't explain sieges in such an accessible and at times entertaining way as Tudor Jenks manages in this 1909 volume. The text and explanations are directed at children, but interested adults will profit from them in the same way. ( Carolin)
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This is my first time on Librivox, so I won't be too ambitious. I'd like to take parts 0, 1, and 2. I'll be recording them presently
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hi and welcome to librivox!
you are welcome to participate in this project to be able to sign you up, i need to know under which name or pseudonym you would like to appear in the catalog. we can also link to your personal website or blog.
please also complete the one minute test before getting started!
Carolin wrote: ↑November 28th, 2018, 12:53 am
i need to know under which name or pseudonym you would like to appear in the catalog. we can also link to your personal website or blog.
please also complete the one minute test before getting started!
I must have missed that the test was required. I'll send that in tonight.
dont worry too much about the test, it is more or less a sound check. we need our recordings in a specific format and with a somewhat consistent volume, and these things can be tricky to adjust after recording. so we ask newbies to submit a test recording to make sure that actual recordings go as smoothly as possible thank you!
I am a returning reader after several years absence. I would like to do Section 5. I'd like to submit a sound test to make sure I'm set up correctly. I'll try to get that sent out tonight. I'd like to use my full name Susan Morin. There is no website or blog at present.
Submitting a new test is probably a good idea, just to make sure your software and microphone are still working properly
We have had a big change of software and updated the catalog a few years back, im not sure if you are familiar with the way things look now. If you have any questions, just let us know your personal catalog page is still here https://librivox.org/reader/8295
It might be that the construction of sentences is oldfashioned, but i wouldn't expect any mistakes other than printing or typesetting errors, and thats usually few - not more than a handful per book.